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"You do look ill, John! (..) Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?"
"I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then, I ate my own wickedness."

"It was the sort of idea that might easily take to believing, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge."

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